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Brand new battery dead, refuses to be charged?
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I replaced my 3 1/2 year old crap optima with the Walmart ever start that comes with 3 year warranty like I have in my other vehicles and not a problem since. In my experience I would not call an optima an upgrade. In the last few months I had the optima it would go dead from sitting for a week and need a jump if the doors were open for an hour while cleaning. The ever start has started up every time even after a double feature at the drive in theater with subs/amp on at decent volume.
I replaced my trunk and interior lites to LED lights and they take no power plus they are brighter
pontiacgp said:
I thought about doing the same thing, but I'd prefer to keep the original yellowed light look of the incandescent bulbs. It may sound weird, but I'm a purist when it comes to originality, however I am willing to swap parts between olds and buick, thus my wheels and seats.
some of the newer "smart" chargers wont charge a battery thats too deeply discharged as it thinks the battery is bad.
One thing you can try is to equalize the charge by hooking up battery charger to the " bad" discharged battery which has also been connected to a "good" 12v battery ( positive to positive and negative to negative ). Once it charges like that for a couple hours then try connecting again to the " bad" battery.
A couple amp trickle charger is the best thing for this.
One thing you can try is to equalize the charge by hooking up battery charger to the " bad" discharged battery which has also been connected to a "good" 12v battery ( positive to positive and negative to negative ). Once it charges like that for a couple hours then try connecting again to the " bad" battery.
A couple amp trickle charger is the best thing for this.
axisg said:
I was using a 6 amp trickle charger I borrowed from my buddy. It's no less than 100 years old, lol.
joesregalproject said:
If its under warrenty then take it back. Sounds like a dead / shorted cell not allowing it to charge. You could break the seals on the ventcap and check cell by cell to figure out which one is bad but that will likely void the warrenty.
I'm having my own battery issue.
I have a couple year old duralast battery. It went dead because i forgot to disconnect the ground for storage.
I hooked up a charger at 40 amps and forgot about it for about a day. when i finally went to unhook it the battery was leaking.
Now it wont hold a charge at all..
Anything i can do to fix it? i dont have the money for another battery.
I have a couple year old duralast battery. It went dead because i forgot to disconnect the ground for storage.
I hooked up a charger at 40 amps and forgot about it for about a day. when i finally went to unhook it the battery was leaking.
Now it wont hold a charge at all..
Anything i can do to fix it? i dont have the money for another battery.
At that high of an amperage, youve basically melted everything inside. Your not gunna fix that, you'll need a different battery. im sure you can probably find one in a stock pile of good, used batteries in a junk yard somewere for like 20 bucks or somethingTheMonteCarloKid said:
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